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A Contribution from Film to a Psychoanalytic Explanation of Large Consequence – Haneke's Affirmation of Historical Antecedents to Nazism[Note 1. 1 I am indebted to Margarete Landwehr, PhD, who, ...]
Author(s) -
Parens Henri
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.287
Subject(s) - psychoanalytic theory , psychoanalysis , nazism , psychodynamics , german , neglect , sociology , psychology , history , psychiatry , archaeology
ABSTRACT In his masterpiece , The White Ribbon, writer and film‐maker Michael Haneke creates a tale that jars the viewer with his portrayal of life in a (German) village at the threshold of World War I. But he also gratifies this psychoanalytic viewer in two ways: (1) in the historically documented realistic portrayal of harsh child rearing and its then‐unrecognized potential highly destructive consequences; and (2) in the psychoanalytic cogency of his portrayal, given that established psychoanalytic and psychological theorizing compelled by evidence‐based findings asserts just what Haneke tells us: that abuse (and neglect) of children generate the hostile‐destructive‐laden psychodynamic that underlies the formation of delinquent and criminal characterology. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.